Thriving with Stone Age Minds

<P><B>What does God's creation of humanity through the process of evolution mean for human flourishing?</B> The emerging field of evolutionary psychology remains controversial perhaps especially among Christians. Yet according to Justin Barrett and Pamela Ebstyne King it can be a powerful tool for understanding human nature and our distinctively human purpose.</P><P><I>Thriving with Stone Age Minds</I> provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology explaining key concepts like hyper-sociality information gathering and self-control. Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with resources from the Bible and Christian theology Barrett and King focus fresh attention on the question <I>What is human flourishing?</I> When we understand how humans still bear the marks of our evolutionary past new light shines on some of the most puzzling features of our minds relationships and behaviors.</P><P>One key insight of evolutionary psychology is how humans both adapt to and then alter our environments or niches. In fact we change our world faster than our minds can adapt-and then gaps in our fitness emerge. In effect humans are now attempting to thrive in modern contexts with Stone Age minds. By integrating scientific evidence with wisdom from theological anthropology we can learn to close up nature-niche gaps and <I>thrive</I> becoming more what God has created us to be.</P><P>BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity invite us to see the harmony between the sciences and biblical faith on issues including cosmology biology paleontology evolution human origins the environment and more.</P>